Sentences with phrase «further legal aid cuts»

Similarly, defence firms were told last week that they will have to wait until after the election to find if they face further legal aid cuts following new year consultations on both litigators» and advocates» fees schemes.

More recently further legal aid cuts have been proposed by the Government: see «Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system» Ministry of Justice, April 2013; «Transforming Legal Aid: Next Steps» Ministry of Justice, September 2013; and «Judicial Review Proposals for Further Reform» Ministry of Justice, September 2013.

Tuckers are pleased to be supporting FatRat Films in their efforts to raise the remaining funding that they require for their short film animation exposing the folly of legal aid cuts, indeed further legal aid cuts — if the next cut of 8.75 % to criminal legal aid is implemented in the summer of 2015.

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On home affairs, legal aid cuts will continue to bite and the police face further cuts.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

The government plans to introduce a system of price competitive tendering (PCT) into criminal defence work with the aim of slashing a further # 220m from the legal aid bill and cutting the number of contracts from 1,600 to around 400 providers.

Their plan for mediation to pick up the family disputes that had been cut from lawyer's legal aid has failed spectacularly so far.

YLAL has responded to this consultation voicing our deeply held concern that further cuts to remuneration for legal aid work will undermine the quality of legal help which our clients receive, cause more good legal aid firms to go under and make life more difficult for junior lawyers, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, who are struggling to enter the profession.

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Against the back drop of a threat of a further cut of # 220 million from the criminal legal aid budget, this... Read more»

The Ministry of Justice have just announced a further cuts to criminal legal aid for work undertaken on the most serious cases.

The changes — which were originally proposed in the November 2013 consultation Judicial review: proposals for further reform — include further cuts to legal aid and amendments to the rules on costs which will make it more difficult for charities and NGOs to intervene in judicial review proceedings.

Further, the legal aid cuts and civil justice reforms announced this year will undoubtedly cut access to justice for many claimants.

In the event that the Lord Chancellor's proposals proceed, the Law Society will press the MoJ to work with the Society to develop a support package, and commission and publish, before any further cuts in legal aid rates, an impact assessment of the initial cuts and other changes on the working of the criminal justice system and defence solicitor practitioners.»

The Government has announced its intention to press ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the number of legal aid contracts allowing criminal defence firms to represent suspects in the police station, while also cutting fees by a further 8.75 %.

It pledges to save # 215 million by 2018/19 and not to seek any further cuts in criminal legal aid during the lifetime of this parliament (ie until May 2015!).

In their press release vice-president Christina Blacklaws said: «The Law Society has consistently warned that this fragile criminal legal aid market can not stand any further cuts.

Richard Miller, head of legal aid at the Law Society, concluded, «LASPO is not working for the taxpayer, for the government, for people who need to protect and enforce their rights, or for those working within the system», while Bob Neill, chair of the Justice Select Committee took to Twitter to say that the coalition government had gone «too far» in cutting legal aid.

The meeting took place against the backdrop of the uproar concerning further cuts to the legal aid fees paid to practitioners following the recent additions to the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme («AGFS»), a matter which naturally made its way into the conversation through constructive questions and statements.

Family legal aid cuts are having a major impact while falling crime has made further budget cuts unnecessary, according to the Bar Council

The manner in which the Labour Government dealt with the cut in legal aid was to develop further the availability of conditional fees.

In his address, Mr. Moskowitz stressed the need for increased funding for the civil legal aid line item, «to avoid further devastating program cuts.»

«What they've done to legal aid for solicitors is far worse than what they've done to the Bar,» he adds, pointing to the recent cuts to the litigators» graduated fee scheme, which cut the fees for the bigger cases on which firms had relied to make their money by 40 per cent.

On a related note, YLAL hopes that the Treasury has come to accept that criminal legal aid practices can not absorb the losses from further cuts to the criminal budget.

The Ministry of Justice is firmly in This - Is - Fine - Dog - meme - mode, and is pressing ahead with its plans to (a) further «reform» criminal legal aid (by shuffling the deckchairs in such a way as to amount, in some complex cases, to a 40 % cut); and (b) do absolutely nothing about the chronic underfunding of the courts, Crown Prosecution Service, police, Probation, prisons and many other decaying limbs of the criminal justice system.

This states that those organisations oppose any further cuts to legal aid as proposed by the MoJ and that the «published data can not be considered in isolation and does not justify cuts in any form.

They say fees for practitioners had been cut by 30 % across the board since 2007 and a further 20 % cut in the legal aid budget was anticipated.

It comes back to the old argument about who pays for access to justice; with yet further cuts to legal aid piggy backing on restricting access for claimants under the Jackson reforms where's the balance to be achieved?

The Shadow Justice Secretary, Richard Burgon, had urged the government to «go back to the drawing board» on its changes to the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS), which it's understood will result in further cuts to legal aid lawyers» income.